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The Boy Scout who constructed a gazebo dedicated to slain ATF agent John Capano is now an Eagle Scout. Cory Levy received scouting’s highest honor in a ceremony at the Seaford American Legion on Nov. 28, where he was joined by about 80 family members, friends, fellow Scouts, elected officials and community leaders.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/8/15
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The Book Fairy is out and about again, this time at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick, to collect roughly 800 books raised by children eager to help those in need. Amy Zaslansky, of Bellmore, has been the Book Fairy for the past three years, collaborating with Levy-Lakeside and other Bellmore-Merrick Schools to gather the books.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/5/15
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A group of Herald Community Newspapers editors, reporters and interns took a kayak tour on Nassau County’s wild side, at the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, on July 24.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/28/15
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Since the 1960s, the annual Keep-A-Merrick Beautiful contest has challenged students at local elementary schools and Merrick Avenue Middle School to think deeply about their community and the environment. 2015 was no different.
This year children crafted posters and penned essays on “The Future of Merrick and the World Finding Renewable Energy Sources.” Contest winners were announced during a joyous ceremony at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick on June 2.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/1/15
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With a herd of Nigerian dwarf goats eating their way through a field of mugwort weeds in the background, Town of Hempstead officials welcomed National Parks of New York Harbor Commissioner Joshua Laird to the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick last Thursday.
Laird and a contingent of federal and New York City officials came to the 52-acre preserve to understand better how to convert a decommissioned landfill into a wildlife refuge.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/29/15
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At Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve, it’s easy to forget you’re in suburban south Merrick. While gazing at goats grazing in a pasture beside a tumbledown shed, trails curving out of view up a hillside, rushes hiding a stream, or vistas of bays and the beach, the sounds of passing cars or neighbors’ lawnmowers fall away into silence.
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6/10/15
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New York state’s tax cap on school districts and local municipalities is set to expire next year, but the State Legislature could, before this year’s session ends later this month, vote to extend it. We would like to see . . .
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6/4/15
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Bellmore-Merrick Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso recently said the district’s 2015-16 spending plan has the potential to be “one of the best budgets in Bellmore-Merrick in the last 10 years,” noting that, if passed, it would restore previously cut teaching and administrative positions and reduce class sizes, particularly for special-education classes.
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5/15/15
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Four incumbents and one newcomer are running for election to the Merricks’ school boards this year, and they are just about certain to win. All are running unopposed.
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5/13/15
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The budget for next school year would sustain funding for the district’s functions and programs, according to Superintendent David Feller.
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5/13/15
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